CLUE: The Lego Boddy Mansion

This project started about 10 years ago or so when I was in high school. I grew up loving the board game Clue and in high school I was reintroduced to the film of the same name. The idea was to build a board to play the game on in minifig scale.

After putting the idea on hold for eight or so years, I picked it up again in 2015. The goal is to create the ground level of a fully playable minifig-scale mansion based on the board from the game. The size of the room and board are determined based on the principle that each playing space on the traditional board equals six Lego studs. This allows full mobility of the pieces and and will allow for architectural irregularities (like doors in the corners of rooms) without making the board huge or unrealistic. Each room in uniquely styled, taking inspiration from rooms found in famous Gilded Age mansions across the United States.

Presently, I am building each room in MLCad 3.5, which I highly recommend. Once each room is built, I will start purchasing the necessary pieces to begin assembly. I start by building just the room itself, then flesh out the surrounding playing spaces, then add furniture. Each of the nine rooms and center staircase are designed and built separately so that they can be dealt with as separate sets which can lock together (similar to what Lego does now with sets). Each room has been built, except for the central staircase, in MLCad and I am currently picking through the models to work out any kinks and to start adding the mechanisms which will lock them together. At present, the full board contains 15,211 pieces.

As I complete and finalize rooms, I will be posting pictures of the finished models. In the meantime, enjoy the images below to get a sense of the detail which I am placing in the models.